This annotation was created by Christine Liebson.
Florence Allen
Florence Allen was the country’s first woman assistant county prosecutor (1919, Cuyahoga County), first woman elected judge (1920, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court), first woman on a state supreme court (1922, Ohio), first woman appointed to an Article III federal court (1934, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit), and first woman Chief Judge of a federal court (1959).
